Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the form of a snail's shell; helicine; helicoid.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Spoon-shaped.

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  • adjective spoon-shaped

Etymologies

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From Latin cochveare ‘spoon’ + -form.

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